#oman

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#book #consider #copy #even #gave

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#because #city #go #jew #medical

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still. ↗

— Thomas More

#disguise #our #rules #still #tis

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#befall #entrenched #fate #man #negation

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#believes #child #children #fact #go

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#amongst #cannot #cosmos #earth #i

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#again #find #getting #getting married #give

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. ↗

— Esai Morales

#bringing #expects #i #i love #least

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#comedies #commerce #fulfillment #look #looking

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. ↗